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Painter and Decorator Careers

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Work Environment:

As a painter and decorator, you'd work on projects, such as renovating houses, and laying hardwearing finishes to big structures such as bridges.

Being a painter and decorator in a domestic work, you'd utilize wallpaper, paint and varnishes to renovate rooms. You'd work as per the instructions of homeowner regarding patterns of wallpaper, color selection and finishing texture. Your major duties would comprise:

  • removing older paint or wallpaper
  • sealing cracks and holes, and leveling out surfaces
  • measuring up surface sections to evaluate the quantity of wall coating and paint required

  • mixing up paint to correct shade, utilizing computerized color matching tool , or by hand
  • hanging wallpaper and laying coats of paint
  • arranging surfaces by undercoat and primer
  • cleaning out after completing a work
You may employ special finishes like marbling, rag rolling and graining in some works.

For commercial contracts, like ships or bridges, you'd take out older paint work with techniques of abrasive blasting before laying new coats by paint spraying tools.

Qualification, Education and Experience:

Employers are likely to prefer people having related work experience, thus you can begin by searching for job as an assistant of painter and decorator. When you're employed, your employer/company might provide you with additional training into painting and decorating.

Then again, you can acquire an academy course, to train you with some skills which are required for this work. Related courses consist of:

  • First Level Certificate into Basic Construction Skills: Painting and Decorating by City and Guilds
  • CSkills: Advanced and Intermediate Construction Award- Painting and Decorating
  • CSkills: First Level Diploma into Painting and Decorating
Contact your regional college, for further information on courses and admission requirements.

You can gain entry to this profession by a scheme of Traineeship. The availability of Traineeships within your sector will rely on the regional employment market and the kind of abilities employers want from employees.

To gain entry to a Traineeship, you might require GCSE grades into subjects like design and technology, mathematics and English, or similar qualifications, like BTEC: Preliminary Diploma and Certificate into Construction. This training course comprises choices into painting and decorating.

Contact Construction Skills, for further details regarding qualifications and careers. The Know Your-Place campaign aspires to endorse the construction businesses as an option of career for women.

Training Details:

You can acquire a NVQ qualification into Decorative Finishing and Industrial Painting Occupations, while you're working. This course is divided in 2 major fields:

  • Industrial-painting: arranging work sections utilizing particular treatments and abrasive-blasting, laying finishes and paint-spraying techniques
  • painting and decorating: roller and brush methods for exteriors and interiors, hanging and fixing wall coatings, special finishes, and fitting center pieces and coving

CSCS: Construction Skills-Certification Scheme

Numerous construction contractors nowadays prefer you to contain a CSCS card to operate at their worksites. This card is evidence of your competency and abilities. To obtain your CSCS card you should:

  • hold a NVQ or similar qualification
  • get through with a health and safety evaluation
If you're working with no qualifications, you might be capable to utilize EWPA (Experienced Worker-Practical Assessment) or OSAT (On Site Assessment and Training) to obtain your card and NVQ. For additional information, contact CSCS.

Traditional Building-Skills Bursary Scheme

It aspires to address shortages of skills in the conventional crafts and built heritage area, by providing bursaries and arranging vocational training-placements for qualified candidates.

See the website of Traditional Building Skills Bursary Scheme, for further details regarding available placements, scheme and eligibility.

Skills and knowledge:

  • an understanding of health and safety measures
  • the capability to work by yourself and as member of a group
  • the capability to operate at heights
  • excellent creative and practical abilities
  • the capability to concentrate to details and work cautiously

Salary and Other Benefits:

  • Initial remunerations for painter and decorator can be about £14,000 to £17,000 for a year.
  • Average earnings of painter and decorator can be about £18,000 to £22,500 for a year.
  • And decorators having supervisory responsibilities can receive above £25,000 annually.
Shift and overtime payments can raise earnings. Freelance painters and decorators put their own charges.

Working Conditions:

You'd work weekly for about 41 hours, on weekdays. You might be required to work for extended hours to meet up targets. You'd be anticipated to voyage between different worksites and few works might necessitate overnight-stays away from house.

In house painting works, you'd generally operate from raised platform or ladders to access ceilings. You'd utilize a safety harness or cradle, with big industrial constructions. Solvents and paints emit fumes, thus you might be required to put on a protecting mask or utilize fume-extraction equipment in some works, if within confined places.

Different Opportunities:

You can discover work chances with the NHS, painting and construction contractors and regional authorities. Few firms might do specialization into specific techniques such as heavy industrial-painting.

By experience, you can advance to supervisory positions or enter in associated fields like contract management or estimating. You can also acquire additional training to do specialization into renovation work. You can also establish your own firm and work on the basis of subcontract.

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